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THE HAMILTON MIXTAPE SENTENCE STARTERS.

NO JOHN TRUMBULL.

• ❝  you ever see a painting by john trumbull?  ❞
  
• ❝  the reality is messier and richer.  ❞
  
• ❝  the reality is not a pretty picture.  ❞
  

MY SHOT ( RISE UP REMIX ).

• ❝  that’s why i hustle hella hard, never celebrate a holiday.  ❞
  
• ❝  i refuse to ever lose or throw my shot away.  ❞
  
• ❝  if i have given it all i got i cannot regret it.  ❞
  
• ❝  when opportunity knock, you don’t send anyone to get it — answer the door, welcome it, let it in, or regret it.  ❞
  
• ❝  i surprise you guys, i’m a prize fighter.  ❞
  
• ❝  be leaders, believers in yourself and mean it.  ❞
  
• ❝  i mean you only get one shot, take it or leave it.  ❞
  
• ❝  we ain’t got no other choice, we need to rise up.  ❞
  
• ❝  inside i feel that fire that’s burning.  ❞
  
• ❝  see i’ve been patiently waiting for this moment.  ❞
  
• ❝  give me my one chance to grab the torch and properly hold it.  ❞
  

WROTE MY WAY OUT.

• ❝  i had no foundation, no friends and no family to catch my fall.  ❞
  
• ❝  running on empty, there was nothing left in me but doubt.  ❞
  
• ❝  writin’ songs about rights and wrongs and bails bonds.  ❞
  
• ❝  competition near, i’m a spartan without the spear.  ❞
  
• ❝  this poetry in motion, i’m a poet.  ❞
  
• ❝  running out of time like i’m jonathan larson’s rent check.  ❞
  
• ❝  my mind is where the wild things are.  ❞
  
• ❝  oh, you think you smart?  ❞
  
• ❝  oversensitive, defenseless, i made sense of it.  ❞
  
• ❝  these sentences are endless, so what if they leave me friendless?  ❞
  
• ❝  damn, you got no chill.  ❞
  
• ❝  fuckin’ right, i’m relentless!  ❞
  
• ❝  i know abuela’s never really gonna win the lottery.  ❞
  
• ❝  i was born in the eye of a storm.  ❞
  
• ❝  this hurricane in my brain is the burden i bear.  ❞
  
• ❝  i’m here cause i wrote my way out.  ❞
  

AN OPEN LETTER ( INTERLUDE ).

• ❝  an open letter to the fat, arrogant, anti - charismatic national embarrassment known as  ______.  ❞
  
• ❝  the man’s irrational.  ❞
  
• ❝  trick, please!  ❞
  
• ❝  at least i do my job up in this rumpus.  ❞
  
• ❝  the line is behind me, i crossed it again.  ❞
  
• ❝  they were calling you a dick back in ‘76 and you really haven’t done anything new since.  ❞
  
• ❝  you’re a nuisance with no sense.  ❞
  
• ❝  you’ll die of irrelevance.  ❞
  
• ❝  go ahead, you aspire to my level, you aspire to malevolence.  ❞
  
• ❝  i don’t care if i kill my career with this letter.  ❞
  
• ❝  sit down, _____, you fat motherfucker!  ❞
  

VALLEY FORGE ( DEMO ).

• ❝  these are the times that try men’s souls.  ❞
  
• ❝  tyranny, like hell, is not easily conquered; yet we have this consolation with us, that the harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph.  ❞
  
• ❝  i am seeing the best minds of my generation waste away in pestilence and starvation.  ❞
  
• ❝  is this all a test or have we met our doom?  ❞
  
• ❝  i am beyond comprehension of their nonsense.  ❞
  
• ❝  do you have no influence at all, you fucking skinflints?  ❞
  
• ❝  tone it down.  ❞
  

IMMIGRANTS ( WE GET THE JOB DONE ).

• ❝  it’s really astonishing that in a country founded by immigrants, immigrant has somehow become a bad word.  ❞
  
• ❝  we all came to america trying to get a lap dance from lady freedom.  ❞
  
• ❝  don’t think i didn’t notice those tombstones disguised as waves.  ❞
  
• ❝  all you got to do is see the world with new eyes.  ❞
  
• ❝  immigrants, we get the job done.  ❞
  
• ❝  look how far i come.  ❞
  
• ❝  we’re america’s ghost writers, the credit’s only borrowed.  ❞
  

CONGRATULATIONS.

• ❝  congratulations, you have invented a new kind of stupid.  ❞
  
• ❝  truly, you didn’t think this through? kinda stupid.  ❞
  
• ❝  i begged you to take a break, you refused to  ❞
  
• ❝  so scared of what your enemies might do to you. you’re the only enemy you ever seem to lose to!  ❞
  
• ❝  you’ve redefined your legacy.  ❞
• ❝  i lived only to read your letters.  ❞
  
• ❝  i look at you and think ‘god, what have we done with our lives, and what did it get us?’  ❞
  
• ❝  i’m back in the city and i’m here to stay.  ❞
  
• ❝  i know what i’m here to do. i’m not here for you.  ❞

CABINET BATTLE 3 ( DEMO ).

• ❝  and whether or not you want it, guys, that is the final compromise we made.  ❞
  
• ❝  we cannot cure prejudice or righteous, desperate hate.  ❞
  
• ❝  but we can’t address the question if we do not have an answer.  ❞
  
• ❝  is it my turn? good.  ❞
  
• ❝  a land of the free? no it’s not, it’s hypocrisy.  ❞
  
• ❝  how dare you.  ❞
  
• ❝  well, you asked how i feel. i don’t pretend to know the answer, but the question is real.  ❞
  
• ❝  let’s take this moment to establish a precedent.  ❞
  
• ❝  do you really wanna have that conversation?  ❞
  
• ❝  let’s hope the next generation thinks of something better.  ❞
  

WASHINGTONS BY YOUR SIDE.

• ❝  it’s kinda crazy ‘cause people think i got it made just ‘cause i got paper.  ❞
  
• ❝  i do got it made but that’s ‘cause i made it myself.  ❞
  
• ❝  don’t matter what most people say.  ❞
  
• ❝  i did everything that i want, i still don’t care what anybody else think.  ❞
  
• ❝  it must be nice to have everybody on your side.  ❞
  

WHO TELLS YOUR STORY.

• ❝  when i die, will heaven be done?  ❞
  
• ❝  what will my legend become?  ❞
  
• ❝  the path to perfection is rarely achieved. i head in that direction, i dream and believe.  ❞
• ❝  the quills that i dip into the ink go to document and you’ll remember me when i’m extinct.  ❞
  
• ❝  through hard times, we spark minds to keep the flame on.  ❞
  
• ❝  will they tell your story in the end?  ❞